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Welcome to our blog! Based in Omaha, Nebraska, Kameron Bayne Images, Inc. is a professionally trained, award winning, creative and relational-driven photography studio. We are available for worldwide travel and aspire to create cinematic images with a soul, depth, and geniune character. 

Although life extends far beyond our jobs, we are humbled and filled with gratitude photography is the kind of work that can express the intangible qualities of life and inspire us to live it more fully.  It is our belief that real life inspires beautiful, creative art and the more honest that art is, the more it inspires better living.  With this blog, we hope to explore the art form of photography, to grow as people, and find ways to contribute to the ever changing community of our world.  Along the way, we hope to provide a glimpse into the daily life of our studio. If you join us and read along for a while, we’d be honored if you let us know and bless us with a comment or two!

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Kameron Bayne, Photographer
With an educational background in philosophy, theology, interpersonal communication and conflict resolution, the first thing you may notice about Kameron is he’s awful at small talk.  But don't let that fool you!  He really enjoys getting to know people and has a gift for sorting out complicated ideas. A true artist at heart, the beauty he sees in life is inspired most by the invisible qualities of love, faith, and hope. Once behind the camera, his quiet presence becomes a source of confidence for our clients as they invite him into a small, but significant part of their lives.

Heather Bayne, Viewing Director
Heather is a genuinely caring, technical savvy, task accomplisher and problem solver (she used to take calculus classes in college just for fun!). With a positive and upbeat attitude, she heads up each viewing premiere. She also maintains the back-end of our computer systems, helps occasionally with retouching or album design and corrects Kameron when he mispronounces words.

Brenda Block, Client Relations
Disarming, outgoing and generous–Brenda loves people and can often be found chatting with anyone from the corner grocery store clerk to the CEO of a fortune 500 company. She will be the one to help you get acquainted with our studio and walk through the entire creation process. She’ll also be there at the end to ensure you had a wonderful experience working with us.

Jordan Block, Production Assistant
Bio coming soon!


Studio Info

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Tanya + Brandon | Maui Destination Wedding

Remember Tanya and Brandon?  I met them over a year ago for their engagement session and am incredibly happy for these two extraordinary individuals.  Brandon is cheerful, considerate and a man of deep character.  Tanya is a woman of rare beauty; she’s humorous, kind, courageous and strong.  Together, they make a perfect couple (or darn near close to it)!  On January 29, they were married on the beautiful Hawaiian island of Maui.  The celebration started with a luau feast the night before the ceremony and ended with an outdoor reception that quickly moved inside after rained poured down on us all!  But that didn’t spoil any of the fun.  The night was filled with an electric atmosphere, an impromptu dance party (complete with random strangers joining in) and several touching, heartfelt stories.  Their friends and family were great too — everyone made sure my assistant and I felt welcome and included and we certainly did.  It was an experience to remember and I’m thankful to witness the union of such love.  Congratulations Tanya and Brandon!  May your love grow as you grow old together, or as Jon McLaughin once said, “May the sparks in your eyes out live the lines on your face.”

Transitions

As a AseraCare Hospice volunteer, today I had the privilege of documenting a dying man’s final wishes and photographed him in his military uniform.  In the process, I met his wife and could clearly see they had a beautiful marriage.  I spend a lot of time photographing the beginnings of love in the form of engagements and weddings, but today I witnessed the results of a lifetime of such love.  She was tender, sweet and joyful as she served and cared for him.  Although preparing for death can be hard and painful, for them, it seemed it would just be one more step in loving without regret.

February 19, 2010 - 11:01 am AmyPunky Photography - Oh this is so heartbreaking and beautiful at the same time...

Destination Maui

My brother and I photographed a destination wedding in Maui, Hawaii this past week.  Here’s a taste of the island in January (Jordan is the talent behind most these shots!).  I know it was only 10 degrees here in Omaha (and for most of the country) so we tried to bottle up some sunshine and bring it back home for everyone.  Cheers!

February 4, 2010 - 10:39 pm Josh Leeker - love these shots. in particular, the color tones of the plant are really great. spot on.

Matt | Ralston 2010 Senior

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For a late Autumn look, Matt had the honor of being the very last session of 2009.  It was a week before the first snow storm hit, but it was still cold enough to hurl curses at the weather.  Thankfully, we were able to make the day work with frequent breaks for warm coffee and hot chocolate.

As a man of few smiles, three words come to mind with I think of Matt.  He’s athletic, intense, and has great taste in style.  Seriously, the guy plays soccer in foreign countries.  In other words, I think Matt is one of the coolest.  Cheers!

January 12, 2010 - 9:51 pm Christina - totally diggin' two three and five... neat session!

Our Little Monkey

January 3, 2010 - 12:57 am Christina - love this one... Cute kiddo!

January 8, 2010 - 5:58 pm AmyPunky Photography - This is such a cute photo!!!

January 24, 2010 - 5:36 pm katie Harker HIP 2007 - Hi Kameron, congratulations on your baby! your work looks awesome!

12.12.09

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On December 12th of this year, photographer Jeremy Cowart inspired photographers all over the world (including Italy – check out this cool time-lapse video) with a vision to give back to their respective communities with Help-Portrait.  The idea was to give the experience of a professional portrait and the tangible printed results to a person who may never have ever been photographed before.  Some of you might remember awhile back I made a post sharing my excitement about the idea.  A big hand goes to Christine Pagan (pictured above with some fellow “portrait-helpers”) for putting the Omaha chapter together and coordinating several different sites ranging from folks living on the streets at the inCommon Community Development meal to sick children at the Nebraska Medical Center to a church that adopted formerly abused women and their children.  Among hundreds of other photographers, my brother Jordan and Cara of CB Yates Photography & Design came out to help make it a wonderful success.

We setup shop with inCommon and I met some amazing people through this experience — brave, joyous people full of personality and life.  Part of me wishes I could show you more images than just the ones of volunteers during setup, but not entirely because that was the beauty of the idea — to create images for no other purpose than to be enjoyed by the people we created them for.

 

February 10, 2010 - 8:04 pm Christine Elizabeth - Kameron, Thanks for this! I hadn't seen it yet, until I walked into L&D today, and one of the docs said, "hey, we were looking at a picture of you on the internet!" Thanks for posting about it, and thank you SO MUCH again for being there for Help Portrait! It was such an amazing experience, and I know that people were really blessed by your photos! Thank you! Christine

Ethan | 2010 Millard North Senior

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The day is finally here where we show Ethan’s senior pictures!  I know his family and friends have waited a long time for this day to come.  We started the process way back in June and ran into a number of complications that didn’t make it easy on us.  The most significant being Ethan’s untimely accident that resulted in a broken arm just a couple days before our scheduled shoot.  The bad news was the session had to be rescheduled during the studio’s busiest time of the year.  But the good news was by that time, Ethan’s arm had healed and, as you can see… there is no cast in these photographs.  Just Ethan’s beaming smile.

We had a lot of fun finding new spots in the Old Market, doing goofy stuff together and coming up with cool images.  Enjoy your senior year Ethan!

Midwest Blizzard ‘09

the car is buried under snowsnowed in, knee deep sidewalk path

Elly | 2010 Millard North Senior

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Planning ahead for the cooling weather, we split Elly’s session in two.  We started by photographing her at the family cabin/ranch out in the country, and a month later, we finished up in the Old Market.  Strangely enough, the weather was a lot warmer the second time around.  Only in Nebraska.  Always in Nebraska.  But Elly was great each and every time and we got some fabulous pictures of her – fashionable, fun, and artistic.  Her family is great too; her dad gave us some truly organic apples and pears that Heather made into a delicious hit pie.  We’re looking forward to seeing everyone again at the viewing premiere!

December 26, 2009 - 2:11 pm mark - Love these three senior portraits! Great color nice light she probably adored them.

Brothers Ryan and Nathan | 2010 Papillion Seniors

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I had a great session with these guys. We started early in the morning at a lake, stopped by a famous neighborhood “hill” and finished at their school where we showcased some of their different interests.  Both Ryan and Nathan play in the band and help out the theater department on stage crew, but they go their separate ways when it comes to basketball and leisure reading.  Both these guys were engaging and a lot of fun to be around, but watch out when the competitive heat turns up.  You don’t want to get in their way when they give each other “the fierce look!”  Congrats!

December 4, 2009 - 9:07 pm HP - great and diverse images, the chess shot is my fav. HP